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Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Lead developer for the Brammer ERP (Kerridge Rev7)Team leader, updating the Data Warehouse estate from SQL Server 2005 to meet Cyber-Essentials accreditationSole developer for all heritage order management systems.• Developed a single C# .NET Core “Application Portal” to modernise and replace several ASP.NET, C# and VB in-house applications.• Designed and authored a PowerApps “Product maintenance” system, for the national distribution centre to effectively manage product range changes across the 100+ branch network.• System architect, integrating the Blue Ridge stock forecasting service into the multiple Brammer ERPs.• Analysed the warehouse stock and order communication APIs, resolving multiple critical failures, removing all need for manual input and stock resolution (previously 10+ issues per day).

Cornwall

PLC Software developer, authoring a documented and reusable replacement for their aging PLC software in under 6 months.Sole System administrator for the business, modernising the company’s entire IT infrastructure in less than a year, to support a 300% growth in company staffing and trading.• Created a new, reusable, control system for leachate processing, allowing a new site to be implemented by configuration, rather than coding. This reduced commissioning time from over a month to approximately 4 hours.• Replaced Windows server and domain, including Office365 and Sharepoint integration, adding new Contact management, Stock inventory and Document management systems.• Created a new network infrastructure for the company, including firewall and phone system.

Home, Wythall, Oxford

Enterprise architect in a project team of 50, tasked with designing and sequencing the migration of the 40+ Grafton brand trading companies into a single instance of Microsoft Dynamics AX.• Enterprise architect for the proposed AX solution, reporting to the Group IT Director.• Created the design proposal for system interfacing, through migration of data and operation for the three major GMGB business systems (Rev7, ACSL, Opal). The proposal reduced the business migration from 5 years to 3 years, with significantly improved resilience during the project.• Worked directly with business SMEs and 3rd party supplier to define the existing inter-system APIs and design standardised interfaces to replace them with a single ESB, using Microsoft BizTalk.

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Senior developer for the Plumbase ERP (Kerridge Rev7). System architect across the 3 major ERPs (Rev7, Opal, ACSL) supporting over 400 branches and 10,000+ transactions daily.• Supported and developed the Plumbase ERP for 2000 users across 220 branches.• Architect for the “Trading Margin” project, using group-managed product information to control counter-applied discounts across the major GMGB brands. Sole developer for the Plumbase implementation, where the brand bottom line was increased by 1.75%.• Architect for an integrated Purchase Ledger invoice-matching system, working across the 3 major ERPs, reducing staffing overhead by 60%. Sole developer for the Plumbase implementation.• Solution architect for bringing the Progress Group business into the Plumbase/Sparesbase brand, including integration with the Plumbase ERP.• Architect for the “Payment groups” solution for the Credit Management team, enabling a single group-level payment to be split across multiple accounts. Reduced payment-allocation time for large customers from 3-5 days to 3-5 hours.

Crawley

Senior developer in a team of 4, responsible for the design and development of various system updates for the Plumbase ERP (Kerridge Rev7).• Revised the stock forecasting routines to service the Sparesbase central hub model, yielding a 90% reduction in stock levels without affecting stock-outages.• Designed and developed an electronic invoicing system, creating formatted PDF invoices from the (text-based) Unix print files, replacing the previously outsourced paper invoicing solution.• Designed an automated system mirror process, enabling a duplicate “CopyLive” system to operate for support and testing purposes.• Implemented the PPI stock-checking business model, reducing the number of trading days taken by stock take by 50%.• Created and trained the Plumbase QA team, responsible for testing any in-house development.

Hungerford, England, United Kingdom

Senior programmer and Solution architect for the Kerridge Rev7 ERP. Senior programmer for several 1000+ user accounts, including Finelist, Euro Car Parts, WF Electrical, RGB, Bradfords, Jewson and Plumbase.• Developed the Chip and PIN card payment system for Jewson.• Integrated the Euro Car Parts card-payment system for both web and in-person payments.• Designed and developed the Product surcharge service for Euro Car Parts• Modernised the Stock Forecasting system, based on Professor Roy Johnstone’s work.

Shalford, England, United Kingdom

Senior Developer for the AirUK, British Midland, Virgin, KLM and Braathens airline ticket reservation systems, heading up a team of 5.• Full Stack development work.• Complete website redesigns.• Y2K resolutions.• RS6000 server rebuild.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Author of a network performance analysis suite for early in-flight entertainment systems, emulating the load of a flight’s-worth of user input. This analysis and optimisation directly resulted in the retraction of a $10m lawsuit filed by the customer for poor system performance.• Created scripting tools in Visual C++ to emulate the actions of 400+ users on a typical flight.• Network traffic analysis to identify bottlenecks and provide caching/optimisation guidance.• This resulted in an over 300% improvement in system performance, as experienced by the user.

Beng, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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